Biographies

Mr. Darin G. Billerbeck is no longer President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of the Company, effective March 16, 2018. Mr. Billerbeck served as the Chief Executive Officer of Zilog, a microcontroller manufacturer, which was acquired by IXYS Corporation in February 2010. Prior to joining Zilog in January 2007, Mr. Billerbeck served 18 years in various executive and management positions at Intel Corporation, a global technology company, including as Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Flash Products Group from 1999 to 2007.

Mr. Glen W. Hawk is Interim Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Corporate Vice President of the Company. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hawk served as Vice President and General Manager of the NAND Solutions Group at Micron Technology. Before joining Micron in May 2010, Mr. Hawk was Vice President, General Manager of the Embedded Business Group at Numonyx and was at Intel for 22 years in both engineering and business functions, including General Manager of Intel’s Flash Products Group. Mr. Hawk started his career at Monolithic Memories developing Programmable Array Logic technologies.

Mr. Maxwell J. Downing is Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He joined the Company as Vice President, Finance and Corporate Controller in July 2012 and became Interim Chief Financial Officer effective April 2, 2016 and was appointed to Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective February 22, 2017. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Downing served as Corporate Controller at Novellus Systems, Inc. from September 2007 to July 2012. Mr. Downing held various finance controller positions at Intel Corporation from September 2000 to September 2007. Prior to joining Intel Corporation, Mr. Downing held auditing and management positions at KPMG.

Mr. Byron Wayne Milstead is Corporate Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of the Company. Mr. Milstead additionally was appointed to serve as President and General Manager of Lattice SG Pte. Ltd., the Company’s wholly-owned sales and distribution subsidiary in Singapore. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Milstead served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Credence Systems Corporation from December 2005 to May 2008. Mr. Milstead served as Vice President and General Counsel of Credence Systems Corporation from November 2000 until December 2005. Prior to joining Credence Systems Corporation, Mr. Milstead practiced law at the Salt Lake City office of Parsons Behle & Latimer and the Portland offices of both Bogle and Gates and Ater Wynne.

Ms. Robin Ann Abrams is Independent Director of the Company. Ms. Abrams served as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of Zilog, Inc. from August 2006 to January 2007 and the Chief Executive Officer of Firefly Communications, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. In addition to leading several start-ups, Ms. Abrams also served as President and CEO of Palm Computing, Inc. Prior to Palm, she was President and CEO of VeriFone, a leading global debit/credit card authorization solutions provider. Ms. Abrams also held several key executive positions at Apple, including president of Apple Americas and managing director of Apple Asia. Previously, Ms. Abrams held senior product marketing positions at Norwest Bank (Wells Fargo) and Unisys. Ms. Abrams currently is a member of the boards of directors of FactSet Research, HCL Technologies Ltd., Sierra Wireless, Inc. and a private firm. Ms. Abrams served on the board of directors of Unwired Planet, Inc. (formerly Openwave Systems Inc.) from 2008 until 2013.

Mr. Brian M. Beattie is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Beattie is currently Executive Vice President, Business Operations and Chief Administrative Officer of Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), and served as Chief Financial Officer for Synopsys from January 2006 to December 2014. Prior to joining Synopsys, Mr. Beattie was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration at SupportSoft, Inc. for 6 years and held various corporate, financial and operational roles at Nortel Networks over a 19 year period. Mr. Beattie served on the board of directors of Unwired Planet, Inc. (formerly Openwave Systems Inc.) from December 2010 until November 2012.

Mr. John E. Bourgoin is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Bourgoin served as President and Chief Executive Officer of MIPS Technologies, Inc. from 1998 until his retirement in 2009. Previously, he had served as Senior Vice President of Silicon Graphics, Inc. from 1996 to 1998, where he established the intellectual property business model for MIPS and orchestrated the MIPS spin-out from Silicon Graphics. Mr. Bourgoin also was employed at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., where he held various senior positions, including Group Vice President of Microprocessor Products. He also has extensive experience in the programmable logic industry, having served as the Vice President of AMD’s Programmable Logic Division. Mr. Bourgoin served on the board of directors at Micrel, Inc.

Mr. Robert R. Herb is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Herb currently serves as a Partner with Scale Venture Partners, a venture firm focused on investments in information technology companies. He has held this position since 2005. Prior to joining Scale Venture Partners, Mr. Herb served as Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’s (AMD) Chief Marketing Officer from April 1998 to December 2004 as well as Executive Vice President in AMD’s Office of the CEO from March 2000 to December 2004. Mr. Herb served on the board of directors of MIPS Technologies, Inc. from 2005 to 2013. Mr. Herb has served on the board of directors of Micrel, Inc. from 2014 to 2015. Mr. Herb currently serves on the board of directors of several private firms. In 2015, nComputing, Inc., a private company on whose board Mr. Herb served, engaged in an assignment for benefit of creditors under state law.

Mr. Mark E. Jensen is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Jensen served as an executive of Deloitte & Touche LLP until his retirement in June 2012. He held a variety of positions, including U.S. Managing Partner-Audit and Enterprise Risk Services, Technology Industry and U.S. Managing Partner-Venture Capital Services Group. Prior to joining Deloitte & Touche LLP, Mr. Jensen was the Chief Financial Officer of Redleaf Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jensen was an executive at Arthur Andersen LLP, which he joined in 1978, was admitted to the partnership in 1991, and served as the Managing Partner of the firm’s Silicon Valley Office and leader of the firm’s Global Technology Industry Practice. Mr. Jensen currently serves on the boards of directors of Control4 Corporation and a private firm. Mr. Jensen served on the board of directors of Unwired Planet, Inc. (formerly Openwave Systems Inc.) from 2012 until 2015.

Mr. James P. Lederer has been appointed Independent Director of the Company effective March 13 2018. He brings more than 35 years of broad-ranging executive leadership experience, with over two decades focused on the semiconductor, mobile and wireless technology industries. After an early career at General Motors and Motorola, he joined Qualcomm and was part of the senior team that grew the business to become the undisputed leader in the communications semiconductor arena. In his most recent role he was Executive Vice President, leading teams in finance, operations, supply chain, strategy, M&A, legal and product/program management functions for a $17 billion semiconductor technologies division. Jim serves as a director of publicly-traded Entegris. He holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration and an M.B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he also serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Management.

Mr. John E. Major has been appointed Independent Director of the Company effective March 13. 2018. John Major is a veteran of the technology industry, with more than 40 years' experience at leading communications companies including Motorola and Qualcomm, and as CEO of several companies including Novatel Wireless. He has significant board experience at both public and private technology companies, including his Chairmanship of Broadcom until its acquisition by Avago. John has a degree from the University of Rochester, a JD from Loyola University Chicago, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and an MS from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Krishnamurthy Rangasayee has been appointed Independent Director of the Company effective March 13. 2018. Krishna Rangasayee has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer at Groq, a machine learning start-up. Previously, Mr. Rangasayee was with Xilinx for 18 years, where he was Senior Vice President and GM of Xilinx's overall business prior to his most recent role as Executive Vice President, Global Sales. He is a graduate of the National Institute of Technology in India, and has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University. He holds 25+ international patents.

Mr. David Jeffery Richardson is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Richardson joined LSI Corporation in 2005 and most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer until the company’s acquisition by Avago Technologies in May 2014. He earlier served as executive vice president of various LSI divisions, including the Semiconductor Solutions Group, Networking and Storage Products Group, Custom Solutions Group and Corporate Planning and Strategy. Before joining LSI, Mr. Richardson held various management positions at Intel Corporation, including Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Server Platforms Group, and the company’s Enterprise Platforms and Services Division. Mr. Richardson’s career also includes serving in technical roles at Altera Corporation; Chips and Technologies; and Amdahl Corporation. Mr. Richardson presently serves as a Director of Ambarella Corporation. From 2011 until 2013, Mr. Richardson served on the board of directors of Volterra Corporation.

Mr. Frederick D. Weber is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Weber has been an independent business consultant since his retirement in 2009. Mr. Weber was Founder and CEO of MetaRAM, a private semiconductor company engaged in the design, development and manufacturing technologies to improve memory performance, from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, he held various executive positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the last of which was Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. During his tenure at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Mr. Weber pioneered the Athlon and Opteron processors. Mr. Weber began his career at Encore Computer Corporation. Mr. Weber currently serves on the board of directors of MIPS Technologies, Inc. and two private firms.

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